Which card for my old machine?

[Jimmysnuka]

Hello,

I have an older machine and the video card is toast. I am looking to replace it.

My machine is a 2.41 Ghz Athon 64 4000+ with a Asus A8N-E motherboard, GeForce 7900 GTX (toast 🙁), 2 gigs of ram and a 450 watt PS.

I am looking for suggestions for the best fit video card for this old beast. I'm not sure exactly what to go after as the mobo is pci express 1 and i don't know if a 2.0 card would bottleneck hard. I'd prefer not to swap out the PS as this is only a temp measure until I can put together enough cash for another new PC!

I mostly play wow. Any suggestions for a decent card for my machine would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Jimmysnuka]

Thank you for your reply! I apologize for not mentioning that I more of a nvidia guy

How does this card look?

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3763161&pagenumber=2&RSort=1&csid=ITD&recordsPerPage=5&body=#ReviewStart

Seems to have good reviews, good performance, and good price!

It's a few steps up from mine. Will it bottleneck? Perhaps I should be looking at the 8800 ish cards?

 

[Jimmysnuka]

Great! I think i'll stop in after work and pick one up. Thanks again for all your help!